Kessler's Quarry, Garden Park: Late Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian, Colorado
collected by F. C. Kessler, R. Landberg, H. Moore 1937
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Stegosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= Stegosaurus stenops
Marsh 1887
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Carpenter 1998 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Foster 2003 | |||||||||
| "small theropod remains" | ||||||||||
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Allosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholis sp.
Owen 1842
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Pleurosternidae
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Glyptops plicatulus
(Cope 1877)
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Carpenter 1998 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Fremont |
| Coordinates: | 38.5° North, 105.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 52.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Kimmeridgian - Early Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 152.2 - 146.3 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green lithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "gray-green claystone" | |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | DMNH | ||
| Collectors: | F. C. Kessler, R. Landberg, H. Moore | Collection dates: | 1937 |
| Collection method comments: "...excavated by members of the Cañon City Geology Club, o which Mr. Kessler is Secretary..." | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | DMNH Quarry 2, CO-7 | ||
| Database number: | 48160 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-15 10:08:55 | Last modified: | 2023-08-23 12:36:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-15 10:08:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63580. | P. Reinheimer. 1938. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Annual Report of the Colorado Museum of Natural History for the Year 1937 27-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54808 | Anonymous. 1939. Club presents dinosaur to museum. Rocks and Minerals 14:351 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 12893 | ETE | K. Carpenter. 1998. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Morrison Formation near Cañon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23:407-426 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 77784 | K. Carpenter. 1999. The Cañon City dinosaur sites of Marsh and Cope. Scoiety of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting 1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 15179 | ETE | J. R. Foster. 2003. Paleoecological analysis of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Rocky Mountain region, U.S.A. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 23:1-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 15180 | ETE | P. E. Monaco. 1998. A short history of dinosaur collecting in the Garden Park Fossil Area, Cañon City, Colorado. Modern Geology 23(1-4):465-480 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13281 | ETE | C. E. Turner and F. Peterson. 1999. Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:77-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |